Re: Remaining 9.5 open items

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Remaining 9.5 open items
Date: 2015-11-30 22:08:06
Message-ID: 20151130220806.GD2763@alvherre.pgsql
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Stephen Frost wrote:

> The non-documentation question is around DROP OWNED. We need to either
> have policies dropped by DROP OWNED (well, roles removed, unless it's
> the last one, in which case the policy should be dropped), or update the
> documentation to reflect that they don't. I had been thinking we'd
> fix DROP OWNED to deal with the policies, but if folks feel it's too
> late for that kind of a change, then we can simply document it. I don't
> believe that's unreasonable for a new feature and we can work to get it
> addressed in 9.6.

DROP OWNED is documented as a mechanism to help you drop the role, so
it should do whatever is needed for that. I don't think documenting the
fact that it leaves the user as part of policies is good enough.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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